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Title: The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Benjamin Samuel, 1822-1890
Subjects: Orchids
Publisher: London : Victoria and Paradise Nurseries
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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nd very effective, the obtuse orretuse sepals and petals being white with a tinge of lilac, andthe lip with its dilated front lobe deep violet bordered withwhite ; the disk bears some smooth longitudinal ridges, withdark blue stripes alternating with white ones.—TransgangeticIndia. Fig.—Bot. Mag., t. 6328. Y. COECOlor, Blume.—A distinct-looking plant referred bySir W. J. Hooker to V. Roxburghii. It has tall erect stemsfive to six feet high, with lax membranaceous evergreenleaves, which are obliquely tridentate at the ends. Theflowers are numerous, rather distant, in lateral elongatedracemes, the oblong obovate undulated sepals and petalswhite on the outer surface, and of a uniform cinnamon-brownwithin, the lip three-lobed, downy at the base, white with rosydots on the side lobes, the front or middle lobe cinnamon-brown, cuneate and bilobed at the tip; it has a conicalattenuated spur.—China. Fig.—Bot. Mag., t. 3416. Syn.— V.furva (Bot. Beg., non Bl.); V. Roxburghii unicohr.
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VAN DA CCERULESCENS. VANDA. 601 V. cristata, Lindley.—A distinct and curiously markedOrchid. The stems are erect free-growing, with distichouscarinate leathery ligulate leaves, truncate and three-toothed at the apex. The peduncles are short axillaryerect, three to six-flowered, the oblong obtuse arching sepalsand narrower petals of a yellow-green, and the lip oblong,convex saccate towards the front, and divided at the apex intothree narrow acute diverging lobes, green beneath, the uppersurface deep velvety tawny yellow marked with blood-purplelongitudinal stripes, the basal auricles ovate, of a deep blood-purple on the inner face. It produces its flowers from Marchto July, and lasts in bloom for sis weeks or two months.—Nepal; Bhotan; Sikkim. Fig.—Sot. Mag., t. 4304; Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 48 ; Moore, 111. Orch. PI,Vanda 3. V. DemsOEiana, Benson and Rchb. f.—A very chaste anddesirable species, the first white Vanda which has yet beendiscovered. In its habit of growth it much rese

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